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An exterior view of the European Medicines Agency, EMA, in Amsterdam's business district, Netherlands, on April 20, 2021. The European Union’s drugs regulator was meeting Monday, Dec. 20, 2021, to consider giving the green light to a fifth COVID-19 vaccine for use in the 27-nation bloc by granting conditional marketing authorization to the two-dose vaccine made by U.S. biotech company Novavax. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong, File)

EU approves 5th COVID-19 vaccine for bloc, one by Novavax, a Maryland company

By Mike Corder - Associated Press

FILE - A doctor fills a syringe with the Johnson &amp; Johnson COVID-19 vaccine donated through the U.N.-backed COVAX program at a vaccination center in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, July 11, 2021. COVAX, created to share coronavirus vaccines fairly, already scaled back its pledge to the world's poor once. Now, to meet even that limited promise, it would have to deliver more than a million doses every hour until the end of the year. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul, File)

Variants, boosters turn rich-poor vaccine gap into chasm

By Lori Hinnant and Maria Cheng - Associated Press

An man receives a shot of the COVID-19 vaccine during a vaccination campaign at a community health center in Tangerang on the outskirts of Jakarta, Indonesia, Thursday, Oct. 28, 2021. Biotechnology company Novavax said Monday that Indonesia has given the world's first emergency use authorization for its COVID-19 vaccine, which uses a different technology than currently used shots. (AP Photo/Tatan Syuflana)

Indonesia grants 1st emergency approval for COVID vaccine by Md. firm

By Shen Wu Tan - The Washington Times

Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson wears a Welsh flag face mask during a visit to Barry Island, Wales, as part of the Welsh Conservative Party's Senedd election campaign, Monday, May 3, 2021. (Matthew Horwood/PA via AP)

UK announces plan for ‘quantum leap’ in relations with India

By DANICA KIRKA and SYLVIA HUI - Associated Press

In this file photo dated Wednesday, April 14, 2021, a pharmacist fills a syringe from a vial of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine in Antwerp, Belgium. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo, File)

UN program inks Moderna deal on 500M doses, starting in Q4

By JAMEY KEATEN - Associated Press

A family member performs the last rites of a COVID-19 victim at a crematorium in Jammu, in Jammu, India, Friday, April 30, 2021. Indian scientists appealed to Prime Minister Narendra Modi to publicly release virus data that would allow them to save lives as coronavirus cases climbed again Friday, prompting the army to open its hospitals in a desperate bid to control a massive humanitarian crisis. (AP Photo/Channi Anand)

India launches effort to inoculate all adults against COVID

By ANIRUDDHA GHOSAL and MARIA CHENG - Associated Press

South Korean President Moon Jae-in, left, receives his second dose of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine at a health care center in Seoul, South Korea, Friday, April 30, 2021. (Lee Jin-wook/Yonhap via AP)

AstraZeneca delays filing for US authorization of COVID shot

By DANICA KIRKA - Associated Press

In this April 13, 2021, file photo, a box of Johnson &amp; Johnson vaccines are shown by pharmacist Zsolt Szenasi at a warehouse of Hungaropharma, a Hungarian pharmaceutical wholesale company, in Budapest, Hungary. Experts at the European Medicines Agency are preparing to present the conclusions of their investigation later on Tuesday, April 20, 2021, into possible links between the Johnson &amp; Johnson coronavirus vaccine and very rare cases of unusual clotting disorders detected in the U.S. (Szilard Koszticsak/MTI via AP, File)

EU regulator finds link between J&J shot and blood clots, says warning should be added to label

By Maria Cheng - Associated Press

Boxes of Janssen vaccines sit at a warehouse of Hungaropharma, a Hungarian pharmaceutical wholesale company, in Budapest, Hungary, after the arrival of the first batch of the Johnson &amp; Johnson, US, made one-dose vaccine against the new coronavirus in the country Tuesday, April 13, 2021. The first shopment contains 28 thousand doses of Janssen. (Szilard Koszticsak/MTI via AP)

South Africa halts J&J vaccine jabs; Europe rollout delayed

By FRANK JORDANS and MARIA CHENG and ANDREW MELDRUM - Associated Press

Vials of AstraZeneca's COVISHIELD vaccine for COVID-19 are seen at a filling lab at the Serum Institute of India, Pune, India, Thursday, Jan. 21, 2021. Experts say there is a pressing need for India to bolster vaccination, which started sluggishly in January. The country is expanding its drive to include everyone over 45 from Thursday, April 1. Spotlight on Serum Institute of India - the world’s largest maker of vaccines and key global supplier - to cater to cases at home has resulted in delays of global shipments of up to 90 million doses under the U.N.-backed COVAX program, an initiative devised to give countries access to vaccines regardless of their wealth. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)

AP Interview: India could resume vaccine exports by June

By ANIRUDDHA GHOSAL - Associated Press

An AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine is administered at the Ndirande Health Centre in Blantyre Malawi, Monday, March 29, 2021. Malawi is vaccinating health care workers, elderly and those with health conditions that put them at higher risk of severe COVID-19, using the AstraZeneca doses that arrived early in March. (AP Photo/Thoko Chikondi)

Africa CDC says India vaccine woes could be ‘catastrophic’

By KRISTA LARSON - Associated Press

FILE- In this Monday, March 1, 2021, file photo, a health worker displays a COVISHIELD vaccine before administering it to an elderly person in Gauhati, India. Experts say there is a pressing need for India to bolster vaccination, which started sluggishly in January. The country is expanding its drive to include everyone over 45 from Thursday, April 1. Spotlight on Serum Institute of India - the world’s largest maker of vaccines and key global supplier - to cater to cases at home has resulted in delays of global shipments of up to 90 million doses under the U.N.-backed COVAX program, an initiative devised to give countries access to vaccines regardless of their wealth. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath, file)

India fights virus surge, steps up jabs amid export row

By KRUTIKA PATHI and SHEIKH SAALIQ - Associated Press

A vial of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine, manufactured by the Serum Institute of India and provided through the global COVAX initiative, is removed from a portable cold storage box in preparation for a vaccination, in Machakos, Kenya, Wednesday, March 24, 2021. AstraZeneca's repeated missteps in reporting vaccine data coupled with a blood clot scare could do lasting damage to the credibility of a shot that is the linchpin in the global strategy to stop the coronavirus pandemic, potentially even undermining vaccine confidence more broadly, experts say. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga)

UN-backed vaccine delivery program warns of supply delays

By JAMEY KEATEN and ANIRUDDHA GHOSAL - Associated Press

Elementary students leave after receiving a tutorial lesson to reinforce their home remote learning, at Las Zanguenga basic educational center in Las Zanguengas, Panama, Wednesday, March 24, 2021. As the new school year starts no in-person classes are allowed yet in Panama. Only a few rural schools where COVID-19 infections are low have been allowed to open. (AP Photo/Arnulfo Franco)

The Latest: Gov. hopes to up number of Texans getting shots

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

Pharmacy Technician Katrina Bonwick administers a dose of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine at the Wheatfield surgery in Luton, England, Thursday, March 18, 2021. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)

UK faces vaccine shortfall, could delay shots for under 50s

By DANICA KIRKA - Associated Press

In this photo released by Government Spokesman Office, Thailand's Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha, front left, receives a shot of the AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine at government house in Bangkok, Thailand, Tuesday, March 16, 2021. (Government Spokesman Office via AP)

Thai PM gets AstraZeneca jab, 1 Asian country suspends

By PATRICK QUINN - Associated Press

FILE - In this Feb. 17, 2021, file photo, people receive the COVID-19 vaccine at a vaccination site in Las Vegas. Nevada's top coronavirus official didn't guarantee the state can meet President Joe Biden's goal of offering a vaccination to every adult who wants a shot by May 1, but said it gives everyone something to work toward. COVID-19 Task Force chief Caleb Cage said everything depends on vaccine allocations. Seventeen new COVID-19 deaths were reported statewide Friday, March 12, 2021, bringing the pandemic total in Nevada to almost 5,100. (AP Photo/John Locher, File)

The Latest: All Duke University undergrads must quarantine

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

UK says vaccine shipment from India won’t hurt poor nations

By DANICA KIRKA - Associated Press

The first arrival of COVID-19 vaccines to Kenya is offloaded from a Qatar Airways flight at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi, Kenya, early Wednesday, March 3, 2021. Around 1.02 million doses of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine manufactured by the Serum Institute of India arrived at the airport as part of the COVAX facility, according to the Ministry of Health. (AP Photo)

Kenya receives receives 1 million vaccines from COVAX

By BY TOM ODULA - Associated Press

Ivory Coast 2nd country to receive COVID vaccines via COVAX

By TOUSSAINT N'GOTTA - Associated Press